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Tesco apologised to Maria Savva-Chirambo after she tweeted: "@Tesco Have not had a reponse to my message dated Xmas Eve 24th Dec about my gone off turkey,Please assist."

A member of the supermarket's social media team replied: "Hi Maria I'm very sorry your turkey was off and I can understand how disappointing this would be. Can you send us a DM confirming your full name, address, postcode and email address you log into your account with? 1/2"

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Other complaints included those from Craig Spooner, who tweeted: "Thanks for ruining Christmas dinner @Tesco

And Craig Taylor, who vented: "@Tesco well thank you for ruining my Christmas dinner with the rotten turkey you sold us!! Absolutely disgusting smell can't get rid of it. stored correctly and now have no turkey for Xmas."

A Tesco spokesman said: "We've sold hundreds of thousands of great quality British turkeys this Christmas.

"We have exceptionally high standards so we will look to address the small number of complaints in recent days.

"We will get in touch with each customer so we can investigate how these instances may have happened."